‘Essence of Time’ unit report for August 13th

The situation remains tense on the contact line in Donbass. The Ukrainian army continues the active redeployment of the military equipment and personnel to the contact line. Last night, the Ukrainian army fired 138 artillery shells at the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

Zaytsevo and Krasny Partizan villages near Gorlovka city, Yasinovataya town and Mineralnoye village, Staromikhaylovka, Aleksandrovka and Trudovskiye villages in the west of Donetsk were shelled by the Ukrainian army.

The largest part of Trudovskiye village in Petrovsky district of the capital left without electricity as the result of the shelling.

According to DPR recon, two Ukrainian soldiers were killed while placing an improvised explosive device, and three others were injured by shrapnel in similar circumstances. The victims were serving in the 1st Battalion of the 30th Motorized Brigade and the 36th Independent Marine Battalion.

Last night, the deployment of 1 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) ‘Grad’, 8 infantry fighting vehicles and personnel without any insignia (up to a platoon) on cars was spotted on Mariupol direction near Starognatovka village. 2 MLRS ‘Grad’ were noticed to the north of Mariupol near Sartana village. Today, it became known that 9 howitzers D-30, 4 mortars and 7 self-propelled artillery vehicles ‘Akatsiya’ were spotted near Krasnogorovka village in the west of Donetsk and Konstantinovka town, respectively.

According to the recent information for August 12th, Ukrainian punitive forces violated the ceasefire obligations 289 times, including 221 artillery shells, which were fired.